I had a small glut of home grown courgettes recently so happened upon this Georgina Fuggle recipe for courgette, ricotta & mint parcels when googling recipes to use up vegetables. They were so quick and easy to make for my barbecue at the weekend they may well replace my standard quiche as a vegetarian side. The flavours were quite mildContinue reading “Courgette, Ricotta and Mint Parcels”
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Fig Frangipane Tarts
My favourite bakery in my hometown does an excellent line in fruit frangipane tarts and vary their filing from raspberries, blackberries, peach and pear so thought I would try a variation using fresh figs seeing as they are so beautiful and in abundance right now. Please excuse my use of ready-rolled pastry, you can ofContinue reading “Fig Frangipane Tarts”
Mini Lime Meringue Pies
This post was born out of the need to use up a lot of eggs before I go away so you may curse my frivolous use of whole eggs in the lime curd and the subsequent redundant yolks from the meringue. You could of course use another curd recipe that used yolks only but theseContinue reading “Mini Lime Meringue Pies”
Onion Chutney & Cheddar Palmiers
A few weeks ago I bought Jo Wheatley’s new book Home Baking and whilst flicking through it, came across this scarily simple but impressive recipe. My workmate Tracy requested cheese and biscuits over cake for her office birthday celebrations last week so I thought it would be a good opportunity to try out this recipeContinue reading “Onion Chutney & Cheddar Palmiers”
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